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p||i the weather m jm Chicago and vicinity increas ffffj & vs ing cloudiness thursday becoming $_<Â» w ' s unsettled at night or friday slowly j t \ rising temperature light variable f'_f ' f winds lift Chicago examniner fl i$ti rented vet a iwm or ' s l at room st vacant don't fjjjfjf v waste any more time or lose any more t j v money put an ad under rooms in t ./ ji examiner uant jfrl f vol viii no 56 a m thursday february 24 1910 14 pages kef stercd in c _. patent of fir price one cent el^erÂ«a by carrier Â» 30 cents per mouth Taft advocates two battleships each year and urges u s budget actress seriously ill form devotion to stage president tells plan to curb waste in departments would push waterways fortify pearl harbor executive indorses speech by lodge indicating crusade to check high prices new york feb 23 president Taft i.i out flatly in faror of a budget sys em by which the government's finances may be regulated iu a speech delivered to t>ig-t before the board of trade at newark n j the president talked of waste in the various departments of the government rod suggested that the way to curb it is tu have a system such as is iu vogue in other countries where a schedule of ex penditures is made up with reference to the income the president touched broadly upon otter phases of government policy advo cating among other linus ihe quick com pletion of the panama canal to be paid for by the issue of bonds the pushing of river improvements and the building up oi the army and navy like his predecessor president Taft sees the necessity of expanding the navy and he advocated the construction of at least two battleships a year while the panama canal ls being rushed to completion after the canal is built he says the eountry â€¢ an hen afford to halt in its strengthen ing of the navy bnt not until then plans for coast fortification the president pointed out the need of an artificial island at the mouth of chesa peake bay wh_b be called the most strat egic standpoint on the atlantic coast on the pacific coast he declared pearl har bor ls he important naval base and he advocated the establishment of a station there at once president Taft was in hearty accord he declared with the idea of the proposed congressional commission to decide upofi j some new organization of the government's departments with the end of reducing ex penses he suggested that a t'onsolidatlon ; ot various departments might be feasible another important recommendation made , bv th president was the pensioning of j wt~t lie called the superannuated employes j of the government and the substitution of alert employes tho president's speech with its various ; suggestions as to government economy was regarded as he keynote of a campaign to be carried on by the administration lookim to tec tion in the high cost of living crusade on high prices mr Taft referred to a speech delivered by senator henry cabot lodge who pre ceded him iu which the senator dwelt upon he prevailing high prices and ex pressed himself as in hearty accord with tlie purpose of the senate committee which is looking into tiie prices of com modities and standard of wages whe senator lodge declared with much em phasis hat the senate committee would conduct its investigation into he prices charged by the trusts without regard as to whom it would help or hurt the presi dent nodded approval president taft's appearance iu newark was the occasion of a tremendous ovation the whole city kept holiday and the ness district was elaborately decorated explains budget system concerning the proposed budget system president tr ft said by a budget system i mean a refer ence of proposed expenditures and receipts to some one authority or tribunal which after determining what the revenue will be must a so determine what the expendi tnres can be and make a budget without a deficit the calculation for tlie present year showed that here was likely to he a deficit of 34 000.fk.k in respect to ordinary re ceipts and expenditures 1 am glad to say that the operation of the new tariff bill bas been so much more productive of in come that this deficit for the current year ls likely to be considerably reduced ln additon however to the ordinary deficit we have to add the panama canal expenditure for immediate provision of 3u,(>t'o,ooo or what was estimated to be a total deficit of 72,000,000 is nor reduced considerably by the better rates under the present tariff bill every one must admit the wisdom ot providing for the payment of the canal ex penditures by bonds mr Taft went at some length iuto the increased cost of the canal over be first estimates the total he said would bo 373,000,000 provide tor two ships . in he naval expenditures we have re tained a provision for two battleships oi the 25,000-toh capacity and we have done this on the ground that until the panama canal is completed we ought to go on and add to our naval strength tho panama canal will certainly be completed in 1915 and if we have two battleships a year uuti that time the opening of the canal will tit double the efficiency of our navv for tht protection of our pacific and atlantic coasts that we can then abate and reduce our expenditures in new construction it is proposed to app.iut a congressional commission n look into the question of a general reorganization of the department of the government with a view to reducing expenses 1 has ecen dated ou the flooi ol ihe senate that it will be possible bv tin commission to reduce the cost of ad ministr_bon s 10.000,000 a year and that i â– â€¢, free were given t a business ma be rod^bi i niisbf be doubled or tripled pres^hl tall left at midnight foi ethel barrymore ill defies death for stage actress seriously sick as result of braving pneumonia so as not to disappoint audience new york feb 23 miss etiiel bany niore lies seriously ill in the home of her husband kussel t colt 46 east thirty i"ur;ii street and the distinguished soci ety throng that reached the empire thea ter this evening found the house dark anil the doors colsed with no other call for self-ssieriflce than her love and loyalty to her public defying her family and her physicians miss barry more sr.n*erin c from a heavy cold which threatened to develop into pneumonia risked her life on tuesday dowered with the millions of her young husband her stage position invulnerable her life now doubly precious in the joy of recent motherhood she went through two exacting performances of tlie difficult pinero play midchnnnel merely to avert iin:inci:il loss to her managers and disap pointment to a few thousand persons who mi^ht never have jiiowji of he heroism miss barrymore is pronounced as better io-;>igm - ! robbed bank is closed dr eliot is a loser former harvard president stock holder in institution looted of 140 000 bookkeeper gone boston feb 23 following the discov ery that the national city bank of cam bridge had been looted of 1-14.0,10 die doors of the institution were closed to-day prob ably forever by national bank examiner ellis s pepper acting in behalf of the comptroller of the currency six hours after this action had been taken an embezzlement warrant was issued for the arrest of george w coleman the young bookkeeper of the bank who was last heard from in kansas city a few days ago the institution is insolvent be cap ital stuck of sioo.ihjo and the surplus hav | ing been wiped out by the defalcation i john 1 bates was appointed receiver i among the stockholders is charles w eliot president emeritus of harvard ! under the national banking laws the stock b m rs are liable to assessment if the lis i sets are not sufficient to pay the creditors in full as dr bitot holds ten of the 1,000 shares he is liable for a part of the defal i cation 50 die in theater fire moving picture apparatus starts vtliize â€” panic follov special cable to the examiner cali.ao peru feb :&.â€” fifty persons are reported to have been killcil in a j panic following a fire in the municipal theater at trujlllo a town of northern | peru the are started among the appar atus used in connection with a moving pic ture show i judges stay entry of parole decision supreme court grants order after debate with attorney general stead jail delivery is averted jurists announce a rehearing of the joyce case wiil be granted a stay oilier wjiieh ties tiie courts ha.nds by restraining it from issuing the order for entry of their decision finding the parole law of 189 unconstitutional was obtained yesterday by attorney general william h i stead from the state supreme court in special session at judge orrin n carter's office in the county buildiug the uew order also operates as an inhibi tion of jail deliveries through filing of petl i tions for the release of convicts from joliet j penitentiary on habeas corpus proceedings based upon the decision against the parole law in the joseph joyce case this action carried joy to former banker i paul o stensland and other paroled per sons who feared they would be remanded to prison as a result of the decision whose f operation now has been stayed summar ily embodied in the stay order is a certifi cate in whicu the judges of the supreme bench aaj they have decided that the appli . cation cf he state for a re-hearing of the joyce case should be granted this appli cation will probably be heard at the april term of the supreme court dennis asks release announcement was made that a petition i for the release of edward 7 deuuis from | the penitentiary at joliet lad been pre sented by attorney henry z dnrand to judge george a carpenter in the united states district court the petition was not tiled with the clerk it was taken 1 jnder consideration by judge carpenter arguments upon it will probably be made within a few days / ! ilia basis of the petition is the allega : rtuii that because of the failure of judges ! eersten mcewen tutbill and barnes of the county courts to take cognizance of the state supreme court's decision against the parole law the constitutional rights of dennis are impugned in that he is bc prtveit ef his liberty wittrom-<ruc | process of law . it w1s snid in t!-,n county nulidliik tlti't the presentation of the dennis petition t the federal court forced a crisis in the i pnrole law situation iti<l precipitated the ; move of attorney i.iuiieral stead for a rc i hearing on the parole law as well as for i ihe issuance of the stay order iigaiust â– t general j:iil delivery tlierc was an emphatic opinion among the justices that the persons convicted and j sentenced under the parole law of 1899 i were not entitled to writs of habeas cor | pus out unly to the right to sue for writs j of error the former procedure would pro vide fov-tueir discharge from custody i while the latter merely allows them t:j be i remanded to the trial court for a rehearing | justices in heated debate the stay order was granted following an i afternoon of healed debate between attor j aey general ste:ul and the seven justices ' of the court ii was a secret gathering ! after the petitions for a rehearing and a stay order had been granted mi stead issued a statement in which he said be had no fear that convicts now serving time under the p:irole law would be released be fore the tangled web was straightened out then 1 is little danger of a jail delivery of the convicts serving under the parole law " said mr stead if i did not however entertain some hopes of reversing the joyce judgment and sustaining the parole law of 1891 upon re hearing i woÂ»ld not have applied for it added mr stead one subject was dis cussed at the conference upon which i feel at liberty to speak this relates to the effect of the decision in the joyce case upon the right to discharge upon writs of habeas corpus the members of the court were clearly of the opinion and they did not hesitate to emphatically express it in their conference that persons convicted ana sentenced under the law of 1899 are not entitled to writs of habeas corpus un der the recent joyce decision and that the only remedy is by writ of error nicaraguan rebels routed loss 1,500 chamorro defeated after long struggle at tipitapa after being near victory battle through night american battery with insur gents does execution but reinforcements turn tide fagua nicaragua tin galveston tes jo the government reports a de victory over the insurgents at tipi arly this morning etins posted here to-day announce general chamorro's army bas prac .â€¢ been annihilated the dead and tvouiided will number near ly 1,500 according to reports the in surgents are said to have lost 1,100 and the government 400 trainloads of wounded are now arriving at managua where they are being cared lor in emergency hospitals dr compari the itnlian consul is leading in the relief work he is assisted by red cross sur geons and nurses and volunteer surgeons relatives beg admittance the hospitals are surrounded by weeping women and relatives of the soldiers beg ging admittance the scene throughout the city is pitiful in the extreme despite the reports of disaster general chamorro is still uncaptured and the gov ernment is strangely apprehensive lest ho appear with a new force at some unex the first engagement occurred at tisina yesterday afternoon general chamorro oc cupied the towu but his forces rested on their arms a detachment under general iris attacked the government forces er general lara under cover of this ting general chamorro evacuated tisma his apparent object was to recross the tipitapa and rejoin general mana's anny in chontales general chamorro depending on the deadly efficiency of the maxim buttery commanded by captain godfrey fowler an american joined in the attack and for four hours the insurgents seemed to have the best of the engagement in the after noon general lara was reinforced by col icatljethas carter and perdoma sal eans commanding batteries of max i:iil 'â– '-â– â– â– ^â– -â€¢â– - ''â– â– - f 1""|j|^ir"r'-'f > '' ifi-i-i iaiighter on general lara's infantry the government . batteries were dis , tearing general lara in a critical on he sent out a general call for r.d was on the verge of utter rout vheu reinforcements under general chavar rla ami colonel valdoz arrived from the direction of tijrttapn the supporting columns traveled twenty miles under forced march genera ltivas with nioie reinforcements arrived at tii o'clock saving the day general chamorro was obliged to evacu iite his position and under cover of dark j uess escaped with tl<e greater part of his j mtlllery and supplies renews the attack \\ ah only coo ine:i general chamorro j ir.ade another attack on the government j troops at tipitapa at 3 o'clock this morn j iif a vivid account of the battle was ; given by gnacto i'aez general c'uamor ; ro"s adjutant wi;o was capture asidi arcught to managua he told the correspondent to-iiighl that ] ieneral chamorro had 1,200 men engaged n iho tisina battle when the firing ceased half of them had been either killed tvouii'ied or captured ; at 3 o'clock the remaining 600 raon at 1 acked the government stronghold at i tipitajia in a desperate attempt to re j toss the river their fire was returned i from government troops in trenches an<l j ifle pits batteries of machine gnus being nought into play in the darkness only he rifle andi cannon flashes indicated the losition of the men when day broke gen i r:\l rhamorro had but 130 men left some f the insurgent artillery was capture 3 as soon as it was daylight general lara ed a charge on captain fowref s buttery ivhieh was still working with deadly ef ect general lara's horse was killed ! mder him not more than thirty feet from he battery . the government troops charged with ixed bayonets and captured the disabled battery but paez understands that cap tnln fowler and his men escaped artillery is saved the entire strength of ilie army which i las pursued general chamorro from mata ali);t combined with that intrenched at rinitapa was thrown against general chu norro nearly surrounding him notwith standing this ha appeal's to have retired vilh his broken forces in good order ssiv ng the greater part of his artillery and ' us present location is not known here many of the helpless wounded lay for j lours in the scorching sun until found by i lie relief parties both insurgent addgov rumeiit surgeons worked with the lied ross forces amid the scene of stau^iiler i end desolation the spanish chaplain of the insurgent ii'iny whs fatally wounded the mortality was astonishingly heavy is mwh of the tighting was hand to hand j viih machetes mrs gayley to resist askn alimony nml deewc henelf if i one ik grai-.lctl isexo new pel 28 julia gardner gaylej niil iiffbi li'c suit for divorce brougiir j james gc.v'ny she fflad ir.'i 1 snrw^r arid wnnter-comptaint here to-day dc-laring rhat bf i:;.d failed to provide iv â– ; her 8*8 als-o demands alimony and a : jecree of uivorce ji any is granted in her j faror â– cadillac president asserts he gavec h dav.ies 3,200 fo hush press and prosecutor divorce tangle is cause automobile man declares at torney was trapped in act of accepting money i neatly arranged trap a decoy cheek 300 and a charge of blackmail yester resulted in the arrest of attorney tries f davics and incidentally re led the more or less tangled divorce difficulties of charles h foster president of the cadillac automobile company as foster's lawyer davis is charged with extorting at various times 3,200 which be declared was necessary to fix news papers and officials who would expose him unless their good wil was purchased in this manner the chief feature of foster's di vorce entanglement however had been legalized through court action two years ago and he discovered later he could not have been successfully prosecuted has been practical prisoner the drastic denouement of davies took place in an upper office of the cadillac company l'412 michigan avenue monday afternoon since that time he has been fitically a prisoner although the war under trhich he actually was arrested not sworn out until yesterday after tlie trap proved to be the last of a series of visits which foster says his former law yer had made to him in the course of two weeks the first of them was prompt ed by a query from newspapers concern ing foster's divorce on this last occasion thomas mcguire of the mcguire & white detective agency was concealed behind a number of coats and garments hanging close to poster's desk his feet were concealed by a waste bnsket and a pile of hat boxes â€¢ both mcguire and foster say that davies made a final demand for more mouey to l>e used in fixing various per sons who might otherwise injure foster th demand they say was for 1,500 but poster in order to make his ready acqnlea ence more plausible had drawn up a check on the first national bank for 500 detective then appears the check was placed in the outstj â– liaud and at almost the same moment the detective stoud beside davies why er it's to fix the state's attor ney to stop a prosecution oavies if quoted as saying to mcgnlre the arrest vu delayed however on lÂ»;ivies p!p:i that his daughter mallah who is to marry ward parry wo-.ild lie disgraced if he were compelled to go to a cell he wished to communicate with his father iu tupeka kan he sai:l in order to arrange for a bondsman the warrant was served on d:i7ies while he was in liis office 140 dearborn street in charge of detective mcguire he was thvd weak and nervous he was taken to the central police st hon but was spared the hardships en dured by the average prisoner as his fathe had arranged with the first national can to have a bondsman for him a suret company signed his bonds amounting t according to foster davies visited nil two weeks ago and announced the news papers were going to rake up his d roree troubles unless some fixing was done he announced that 1,200 would ie nece kui a few days later foster says thei t:ir another visit at which davies toll of the necessity for fixing 1 " hie state attorney's office no less titan 2.000 woul lie sufficient to approach sueh an officia wis the statement of the lawyer l'lie divorce which caused foster th irutilile was supposed to have beeu grante by a cleveland judge some time in is foster says that he left his first wife mrs louella page foster in 1801 am bta elizabeth n t to live ht d that his wife had filed suit agaius sking for a divorce he said ami va aed at the same time that unless b red and defended himself the decree vould be granted divorce wasn't granted it was not long after this that i re 1 tiirncd to Chicago and was married to ui.r present wife katheriue gaddis foster one may imagine my feelings when i dip covered about threo years ago that no divorce had beeu granted to my ilrst wife because of some error in the original bil i realized that i was a bigamist although innocently and immediately did everything in my power to rectify the error 1 hired attorney davies and sent hin down to cleveland to arrange mutters hi caused the old divorce bill to lie reinstate ind my lirsi wife was given a decree i davies retained attorney clarence liar row after bis arrest ami planned f light the charge of blackmail he refused to discuss the t-ase however charlesworths to jail mother und ilunnrlitcr given five ! return bacli j'or fraud , special cable to the enaiuiner london fell j â€” vioi-.-t qo^doj ' cuarlesworti and her mother irere eacli i sentenced to-dÂ«y to livo yi>urs penal gerrl ! t'.ide for obtniniiik money by false prc ,' tenses and for fraudulently represeutiug i that the younger woman was heiress to a greal state i passing outeii â€¢? the j^d^t 1 reierred tu violets cranarhable i 1 get uh . n-ulwi i>roper applied migbl bav6 nron cor her ;;>â– : acaoralrfe if not 1 qistin^uislieg street bfitli prisoners â– â– apse in tlic dock d hearinj iiu it lawyer held as a blackmailer paid 3,200 says c h foster head of auto company who charges lawyer with obtaining 3,200 on claim it ims needed to keep divorce secret from press and stop wayman from prosecuting take pledge king's advice to asquith premier dines too weil before visiting edward vii po litical worry follows special cable to the examiner london feb 23 the attitude of pre mier herbert asquith on the ministers bench since the opening of the new par liament has been one of extreme depres sion noticeable to all the general sup position was that his mood was due to th fact of the tangled condition of affairs in the liberal party the revolt of the allies and the threats of redmond another cause is now given and the following is the current version of the story when mr asquith visited buckingham palace nst before the new parliament as sembled he had lunched well if not wisely at the time he was ushered into the pres ft btbifjurig he stlir showed . > marks and signs of the generons luncheon of ai atmv nr to before - the object of asquith's visit was to exact a pledge from king edward to sustain tht government's stand in the matter of abol ishing the veto in the house of lords the premier after some circumlocution blurted out his message king makes cutting retort the king with a look which would have slain an equerry on the spot said i will give no pledge sir but i advise 3fon to take one asquith hurriedly left the royal presence and tbis occurrence is said to bevhe cause of the unprecedented phraseology of the message from the throne in his speech the king discarding all precedents used the expression my advisers hitherto he has never shifted responsibility else where to-morrow's events in the house of com mons are expected to decide whether premier asquith's declaration made to-day that the government will not introduce a home rule bill during the present session will result iu the ministry's overthrow crisis is reached to-day if any part of the government's majority desires i oust the ministry it will have an opportunity to do so to-morrow when a vote will be taken on the unionist tariff reform amendment to the address in reply to the speech front the throne which is being debated in the house of commons the o'brienites and the healyites are expected to vote for the ameudmeut but the kedmonitcs probably will abstain from voting ln which case the government i majority is expected to be about thirty i the ministry to-dav imgan drawing up the biil to limit the veto power of the lords taking from the upper liouse all say in financial matters and reducing its de liberations to nttle more thau a mockery tammany crisis to-day murphy cim oast comicrs a state chili inu ii if he dares alisa.w n 5 feb 23 charles f.i murphy has the votes to oust william j conuers from the chairmanship of the democratic state committee at its meet ing to-morrow the sole question is whether he will have the nerve to use the votes he can control murphy is fright eued the charges conuers bus made of the auctioning of judgeships in new tork city as the tammany leader has thor oughly alarmed him ! lie is fearful if conuers shall he thrown out conuers will make those charge so specific an investiga tion of the barter of judicial nominations by tammany will be inevitable meanwhile there is much talk of there being behind tliis strange movement a boom for supreme court justice martin j : keogh for governor dies at czar's rebuke brown wins in primary kii.isiiiu court physician ends life alien reproached pauis feb 23.â€”a st petersburg dis patcli says that the recent death of dr botkln the caarina's private physician was a suicide due to a reproach by the czar for diagnosing the czarina's illness i incorrectly kansas citt mo feb 23 darius brown was chosen the republican nominee for mayor at to-day's primary here by about 3,000 majority sharpshooters called to stop car battles in philadelphia 200 soldiers of the state constabulary summoned in an effort to bring order no cars run after 6 o'clock 2,000 employes of baldwin locomotive works disable police in battle by throwing heavy nuts and bolts dynamiting of u s mail cars threatened unions fear ing ruse wire Taft in ad vance of their innocence philadelphia feh 25.-t_e pennsyl vania state constabulary 200 ex-cow punchers and ex-cavalrymen are on their way here to-night and with daylight will take up the job that the police nnd local militia have failed at that of restoring order out of the chaos that has accom panied the street car strike before they get here there may be seri ous business for some one to attend to the strike lenders to-night got from a con j qdential source u report that an attempt woudl be made late to-night or early in tlie morning by company men to dynamite a mail car and thus bring the strikers di rectly under the wrath of the federal gov ernment to forestall this they sent telegrams to president Taft senator penrose ami post master ashburtou explaining the situation and disclaiming responsibility for anything that might happeu nothing had occurred up to midnight though and both sidej looked for a peaceable night strikers and police in battle there was no peace to-day there was one big pitched battle betweeu the police who flred more than two hundred shots ' ; nnd the mea of the baldwin loeourotive works who hurled perhaps 2,00q heavy ' nuts and bolts from the windows and roof of the plant tbis lasted for twenty min utes and was the most thrilling skirmish of the strike riots one workman was shot and a dozen bluecoals were put out of action by the hand-thrown missiles the battle was only ended when the whistle at the works blew calling the men back to work then there were several minor disturb ances in kensington where the grea'.est trouble has been thus far this and the increasing inability of the police to handle the situation caused mayor reyburn and his public safety directorate to call upon the gray-clad constabulary boys they entrained from pottsville wilkesbarre punxsutawuey and green burg and they will all be here by 5 o'clock in the morning may cause general strike though this will be good for the peace of the town dt will be bad most likely for its industrial welfare it may bring about the much talked-of general strike of all the labor unions in philadelphia which num ber 100,000 men and more thau 100 iudus the grievance committee of the central federated union hearing to-night of the coming of the constabulary held a special meeting and told john j murphy the head of all the labor interests in the city prac tically tbis unless those cavalrymen show absolute neutrality call everybody out call em out anyhow if you want to they'll all quit men women and children _ c o pratt the napoleon of tho car men doesn't approve of the general strike yet though he declares tbat the men are winning and the company cannot hold out very much longer to-night he is racing about from point to point in a motor urging the strikers to keep out of trouble to-morrow the next twenty-four hours will witness the crisis of the strike no cars run after 6 o'clock to-day a fete additional cars were run bnt to-night as usual the company was afraid to expose its crews and rolling stock to the darkness not a wheel turned after t o'clock the company claims that 000 of its 3,000 cars were in operation earlier the strikers who kept tally at the barns said the actual number was 314 five thousand schoolgirls were given va cations until next monday because of tits lack of transportation facilities and the street disturbances the girls high school and the william peun high school closed their doors judge davis to-day sentenced elwood carr a notorious gang leader to six years in the penitentiary for having assaulted nonunion crews and having bcrned a car john kline and bills atkins who threw iirirks in an affray on sunday and yelled kill the cops were sentenced to two rears apiece garfield willing to run ! tfiu is cabinet member ready tu oi,"n â– harmon in uliiu codc-mbus 0 feb 23 james 1 ': li . held president roosevelt's secretary of the j interior and tennis cabinet member said here to-day that he is willing to load the republican party in ohio against uorernor harmon if there is popular demntul or t ls candidacy if the people or ohio want me for t candidate i will answer the cull he s x>o-ck><>oo<><>o-ck><>o-o o beauty for every woman Â§ by lady duff-gordon i yes the famous dressmaker member of the british p nobility who is now conducting the fashion de g partment of the sunday examiner declares in her o page article for next sunday that every woman can be o made beautiful o 0 plain women thin women fat women Â§ 6 all oi them she says can be beautiful if they will g '" \ dress creator's chief mission should be making 0 women beautiful he asserts and then she proceeds o to point out the way n'o woman can afford to miss lady Â§ duff-gordon's articles in o o t\je sunday examiner jj order yol'r paper to-day o iro_<k)o_-0<*00<kk>ooopck)coocoo<>0(>0_oooow

p||i the weather m jm Chicago and vicinity increas ffffj & vs ing cloudiness thursday becoming $_ig-t before the board of trade at newark n j the president talked of waste in the various departments of the government rod suggested that the way to curb it is tu have a system such as is iu vogue in other countries where a schedule of ex penditures is made up with reference to the income the president touched broadly upon otter phases of government policy advo cating among other linus ihe quick com pletion of the panama canal to be paid for by the issue of bonds the pushing of river improvements and the building up oi the army and navy like his predecessor president Taft sees the necessity of expanding the navy and he advocated the construction of at least two battleships a year while the panama canal ls being rushed to completion after the canal is built he says the eountry â€¢ an hen afford to halt in its strengthen ing of the navy bnt not until then plans for coast fortification the president pointed out the need of an artificial island at the mouth of chesa peake bay wh_b be called the most strat egic standpoint on the atlantic coast on the pacific coast he declared pearl har bor ls he important naval base and he advocated the establishment of a station there at once president Taft was in hearty accord he declared with the idea of the proposed congressional commission to decide upofi j some new organization of the government's departments with the end of reducing ex penses he suggested that a t'onsolidatlon ; ot various departments might be feasible another important recommendation made , bv th president was the pensioning of j wt~t lie called the superannuated employes j of the government and the substitution of alert employes tho president's speech with its various ; suggestions as to government economy was regarded as he keynote of a campaign to be carried on by the administration lookim to tec tion in the high cost of living crusade on high prices mr Taft referred to a speech delivered by senator henry cabot lodge who pre ceded him iu which the senator dwelt upon he prevailing high prices and ex pressed himself as in hearty accord with tlie purpose of the senate committee which is looking into tiie prices of com modities and standard of wages whe senator lodge declared with much em phasis hat the senate committee would conduct its investigation into he prices charged by the trusts without regard as to whom it would help or hurt the presi dent nodded approval president taft's appearance iu newark was the occasion of a tremendous ovation the whole city kept holiday and the ness district was elaborately decorated explains budget system concerning the proposed budget system president tr ft said by a budget system i mean a refer ence of proposed expenditures and receipts to some one authority or tribunal which after determining what the revenue will be must a so determine what the expendi tnres can be and make a budget without a deficit the calculation for tlie present year showed that here was likely to he a deficit of 34 000.fk.k in respect to ordinary re ceipts and expenditures 1 am glad to say that the operation of the new tariff bill bas been so much more productive of in come that this deficit for the current year ls likely to be considerably reduced ln additon however to the ordinary deficit we have to add the panama canal expenditure for immediate provision of 3u,(>t'o,ooo or what was estimated to be a total deficit of 72,000,000 is nor reduced considerably by the better rates under the present tariff bill every one must admit the wisdom ot providing for the payment of the canal ex penditures by bonds mr Taft went at some length iuto the increased cost of the canal over be first estimates the total he said would bo 373,000,000 provide tor two ships . in he naval expenditures we have re tained a provision for two battleships oi the 25,000-toh capacity and we have done this on the ground that until the panama canal is completed we ought to go on and add to our naval strength tho panama canal will certainly be completed in 1915 and if we have two battleships a year uuti that time the opening of the canal will tit double the efficiency of our navv for tht protection of our pacific and atlantic coasts that we can then abate and reduce our expenditures in new construction it is proposed to app.iut a congressional commission n look into the question of a general reorganization of the department of the government with a view to reducing expenses 1 has ecen dated ou the flooi ol ihe senate that it will be possible bv tin commission to reduce the cost of ad ministr_bon s 10.000,000 a year and that i â– â€¢, free were given t a business ma be rod^bi i niisbf be doubled or tripled pres^hl tall left at midnight foi ethel barrymore ill defies death for stage actress seriously sick as result of braving pneumonia so as not to disappoint audience new york feb 23 miss etiiel bany niore lies seriously ill in the home of her husband kussel t colt 46 east thirty i"ur;ii street and the distinguished soci ety throng that reached the empire thea ter this evening found the house dark anil the doors colsed with no other call for self-ssieriflce than her love and loyalty to her public defying her family and her physicians miss barry more sr.n*erin c from a heavy cold which threatened to develop into pneumonia risked her life on tuesday dowered with the millions of her young husband her stage position invulnerable her life now doubly precious in the joy of recent motherhood she went through two exacting performances of tlie difficult pinero play midchnnnel merely to avert iin:inci:il loss to her managers and disap pointment to a few thousand persons who mi^ht never have jiiowji of he heroism miss barrymore is pronounced as better io-;>igm - ! robbed bank is closed dr eliot is a loser former harvard president stock holder in institution looted of 140 000 bookkeeper gone boston feb 23 following the discov ery that the national city bank of cam bridge had been looted of 1-14.0,10 die doors of the institution were closed to-day prob ably forever by national bank examiner ellis s pepper acting in behalf of the comptroller of the currency six hours after this action had been taken an embezzlement warrant was issued for the arrest of george w coleman the young bookkeeper of the bank who was last heard from in kansas city a few days ago the institution is insolvent be cap ital stuck of sioo.ihjo and the surplus hav | ing been wiped out by the defalcation i john 1 bates was appointed receiver i among the stockholders is charles w eliot president emeritus of harvard ! under the national banking laws the stock b m rs are liable to assessment if the lis i sets are not sufficient to pay the creditors in full as dr bitot holds ten of the 1,000 shares he is liable for a part of the defal i cation 50 die in theater fire moving picture apparatus starts vtliize â€” panic follov special cable to the examiner cali.ao peru feb :&.â€” fifty persons are reported to have been killcil in a j panic following a fire in the municipal theater at trujlllo a town of northern | peru the are started among the appar atus used in connection with a moving pic ture show i judges stay entry of parole decision supreme court grants order after debate with attorney general stead jail delivery is averted jurists announce a rehearing of the joyce case wiil be granted a stay oilier wjiieh ties tiie courts ha.nds by restraining it from issuing the order for entry of their decision finding the parole law of 189 unconstitutional was obtained yesterday by attorney general william h i stead from the state supreme court in special session at judge orrin n carter's office in the county buildiug the uew order also operates as an inhibi tion of jail deliveries through filing of petl i tions for the release of convicts from joliet j penitentiary on habeas corpus proceedings based upon the decision against the parole law in the joseph joyce case this action carried joy to former banker i paul o stensland and other paroled per sons who feared they would be remanded to prison as a result of the decision whose f operation now has been stayed summar ily embodied in the stay order is a certifi cate in whicu the judges of the supreme bench aaj they have decided that the appli . cation cf he state for a re-hearing of the joyce case should be granted this appli cation will probably be heard at the april term of the supreme court dennis asks release announcement was made that a petition i for the release of edward 7 deuuis from | the penitentiary at joliet lad been pre sented by attorney henry z dnrand to judge george a carpenter in the united states district court the petition was not tiled with the clerk it was taken 1 jnder consideration by judge carpenter arguments upon it will probably be made within a few days / ! ilia basis of the petition is the allega : rtuii that because of the failure of judges ! eersten mcewen tutbill and barnes of the county courts to take cognizance of the state supreme court's decision against the parole law the constitutional rights of dennis are impugned in that he is bc prtveit ef his liberty wittrom- '' ifi-i-i iaiighter on general lara's infantry the government . batteries were dis , tearing general lara in a critical on he sent out a general call for r.d was on the verge of utter rout vheu reinforcements under general chavar rla ami colonel valdoz arrived from the direction of tijrttapn the supporting columns traveled twenty miles under forced march genera ltivas with nioie reinforcements arrived at tii o'clock saving the day general chamorro was obliged to evacu iite his position and under cover of dark j uess escaped with tle used in fixing various per sons who might otherwise injure foster th demand they say was for 1,500 but poster in order to make his ready acqnlea ence more plausible had drawn up a check on the first national bank for 500 detective then appears the check was placed in the outstj â– liaud and at almost the same moment the detective stoud beside davies why er it's to fix the state's attor ney to stop a prosecution oavies if quoted as saying to mcgnlre the arrest vu delayed however on lÂ»;ivies p!p:i that his daughter mallah who is to marry ward parry wo-.ild lie disgraced if he were compelled to go to a cell he wished to communicate with his father iu tupeka kan he sai:l in order to arrange for a bondsman the warrant was served on d:i7ies while he was in liis office 140 dearborn street in charge of detective mcguire he was thvd weak and nervous he was taken to the central police st hon but was spared the hardships en dured by the average prisoner as his fathe had arranged with the first national can to have a bondsman for him a suret company signed his bonds amounting t according to foster davies visited nil two weeks ago and announced the news papers were going to rake up his d roree troubles unless some fixing was done he announced that 1,200 would ie nece kui a few days later foster says thei t:ir another visit at which davies toll of the necessity for fixing 1 " hie state attorney's office no less titan 2.000 woul lie sufficient to approach sueh an officia wis the statement of the lawyer l'lie divorce which caused foster th irutilile was supposed to have beeu grante by a cleveland judge some time in is foster says that he left his first wife mrs louella page foster in 1801 am bta elizabeth n t to live ht d that his wife had filed suit agaius sking for a divorce he said ami va aed at the same time that unless b red and defended himself the decree vould be granted divorce wasn't granted it was not long after this that i re 1 tiirncd to Chicago and was married to ui.r present wife katheriue gaddis foster one may imagine my feelings when i dip covered about threo years ago that no divorce had beeu granted to my ilrst wife because of some error in the original bil i realized that i was a bigamist although innocently and immediately did everything in my power to rectify the error 1 hired attorney davies and sent hin down to cleveland to arrange mutters hi caused the old divorce bill to lie reinstate ind my lirsi wife was given a decree i davies retained attorney clarence liar row after bis arrest ami planned f light the charge of blackmail he refused to discuss the t-ase however charlesworths to jail mother und ilunnrlitcr given five ! return bacli j'or fraud , special cable to the enaiuiner london fell j â€” vioi-.-t qo^doj ' cuarlesworti and her mother irere eacli i sentenced to-dÂ«y to livo yi>urs penal gerrl ! t'.ide for obtniniiik money by false prc ,' tenses and for fraudulently represeutiug i that the younger woman was heiress to a greal state i passing outeii â€¢? the j^d^t 1 reierred tu violets cranarhable i 1 get uh . n-ulwi i>roper applied migbl bav6 nron cor her ;;>â– : acaoralrfe if not 1 qistin^uislieg street bfitli prisoners â– â– apse in tlic dock d hearinj iiu it lawyer held as a blackmailer paid 3,200 says c h foster head of auto company who charges lawyer with obtaining 3,200 on claim it ims needed to keep divorce secret from press and stop wayman from prosecuting take pledge king's advice to asquith premier dines too weil before visiting edward vii po litical worry follows special cable to the examiner london feb 23 the attitude of pre mier herbert asquith on the ministers bench since the opening of the new par liament has been one of extreme depres sion noticeable to all the general sup position was that his mood was due to th fact of the tangled condition of affairs in the liberal party the revolt of the allies and the threats of redmond another cause is now given and the following is the current version of the story when mr asquith visited buckingham palace nst before the new parliament as sembled he had lunched well if not wisely at the time he was ushered into the pres ft btbifjurig he stlir showed . > marks and signs of the generons luncheon of ai atmv nr to before - the object of asquith's visit was to exact a pledge from king edward to sustain tht government's stand in the matter of abol ishing the veto in the house of lords the premier after some circumlocution blurted out his message king makes cutting retort the king with a look which would have slain an equerry on the spot said i will give no pledge sir but i advise 3fon to take one asquith hurriedly left the royal presence and tbis occurrence is said to bevhe cause of the unprecedented phraseology of the message from the throne in his speech the king discarding all precedents used the expression my advisers hitherto he has never shifted responsibility else where to-morrow's events in the house of com mons are expected to decide whether premier asquith's declaration made to-day that the government will not introduce a home rule bill during the present session will result iu the ministry's overthrow crisis is reached to-day if any part of the government's majority desires i oust the ministry it will have an opportunity to do so to-morrow when a vote will be taken on the unionist tariff reform amendment to the address in reply to the speech front the throne which is being debated in the house of commons the o'brienites and the healyites are expected to vote for the ameudmeut but the kedmonitcs probably will abstain from voting ln which case the government i majority is expected to be about thirty i the ministry to-dav imgan drawing up the biil to limit the veto power of the lords taking from the upper liouse all say in financial matters and reducing its de liberations to nttle more thau a mockery tammany crisis to-day murphy cim oast comicrs a state chili inu ii if he dares alisa.w n 5 feb 23 charles f.i murphy has the votes to oust william j conuers from the chairmanship of the democratic state committee at its meet ing to-morrow the sole question is whether he will have the nerve to use the votes he can control murphy is fright eued the charges conuers bus made of the auctioning of judgeships in new tork city as the tammany leader has thor oughly alarmed him ! lie is fearful if conuers shall he thrown out conuers will make those charge so specific an investiga tion of the barter of judicial nominations by tammany will be inevitable meanwhile there is much talk of there being behind tliis strange movement a boom for supreme court justice martin j : keogh for governor dies at czar's rebuke brown wins in primary kii.isiiiu court physician ends life alien reproached pauis feb 23.â€”a st petersburg dis patcli says that the recent death of dr botkln the caarina's private physician was a suicide due to a reproach by the czar for diagnosing the czarina's illness i incorrectly kansas citt mo feb 23 darius brown was chosen the republican nominee for mayor at to-day's primary here by about 3,000 majority sharpshooters called to stop car battles in philadelphia 200 soldiers of the state constabulary summoned in an effort to bring order no cars run after 6 o'clock 2,000 employes of baldwin locomotive works disable police in battle by throwing heavy nuts and bolts dynamiting of u s mail cars threatened unions fear ing ruse wire Taft in ad vance of their innocence philadelphia feh 25.-t_e pennsyl vania state constabulary 200 ex-cow punchers and ex-cavalrymen are on their way here to-night and with daylight will take up the job that the police nnd local militia have failed at that of restoring order out of the chaos that has accom panied the street car strike before they get here there may be seri ous business for some one to attend to the strike lenders to-night got from a con j qdential source u report that an attempt woudl be made late to-night or early in tlie morning by company men to dynamite a mail car and thus bring the strikers di rectly under the wrath of the federal gov ernment to forestall this they sent telegrams to president Taft senator penrose ami post master ashburtou explaining the situation and disclaiming responsibility for anything that might happeu nothing had occurred up to midnight though and both sidej looked for a peaceable night strikers and police in battle there was no peace to-day there was one big pitched battle betweeu the police who flred more than two hundred shots ' ; nnd the mea of the baldwin loeourotive works who hurled perhaps 2,00q heavy ' nuts and bolts from the windows and roof of the plant tbis lasted for twenty min utes and was the most thrilling skirmish of the strike riots one workman was shot and a dozen bluecoals were put out of action by the hand-thrown missiles the battle was only ended when the whistle at the works blew calling the men back to work then there were several minor disturb ances in kensington where the grea'.est trouble has been thus far this and the increasing inability of the police to handle the situation caused mayor reyburn and his public safety directorate to call upon the gray-clad constabulary boys they entrained from pottsville wilkesbarre punxsutawuey and green burg and they will all be here by 5 o'clock in the morning may cause general strike though this will be good for the peace of the town dt will be bad most likely for its industrial welfare it may bring about the much talked-of general strike of all the labor unions in philadelphia which num ber 100,000 men and more thau 100 iudus the grievance committee of the central federated union hearing to-night of the coming of the constabulary held a special meeting and told john j murphy the head of all the labor interests in the city prac tically tbis unless those cavalrymen show absolute neutrality call everybody out call em out anyhow if you want to they'll all quit men women and children _ c o pratt the napoleon of tho car men doesn't approve of the general strike yet though he declares tbat the men are winning and the company cannot hold out very much longer to-night he is racing about from point to point in a motor urging the strikers to keep out of trouble to-morrow the next twenty-four hours will witness the crisis of the strike no cars run after 6 o'clock to-day a fete additional cars were run bnt to-night as usual the company was afraid to expose its crews and rolling stock to the darkness not a wheel turned after t o'clock the company claims that 000 of its 3,000 cars were in operation earlier the strikers who kept tally at the barns said the actual number was 314 five thousand schoolgirls were given va cations until next monday because of tits lack of transportation facilities and the street disturbances the girls high school and the william peun high school closed their doors judge davis to-day sentenced elwood carr a notorious gang leader to six years in the penitentiary for having assaulted nonunion crews and having bcrned a car john kline and bills atkins who threw iirirks in an affray on sunday and yelled kill the cops were sentenced to two rears apiece garfield willing to run ! tfiu is cabinet member ready tu oi,"n â– harmon in uliiu codc-mbus 0 feb 23 james 1 ': li . held president roosevelt's secretary of the j interior and tennis cabinet member said here to-day that he is willing to load the republican party in ohio against uorernor harmon if there is popular demntul or t ls candidacy if the people or ohio want me for t candidate i will answer the cull he s x>o-ck><>oo<><>o-ck><>o-o o beauty for every woman Â§ by lady duff-gordon i yes the famous dressmaker member of the british p nobility who is now conducting the fashion de g partment of the sunday examiner declares in her o page article for next sunday that every woman can be o made beautiful o 0 plain women thin women fat women Â§ 6 all oi them she says can be beautiful if they will g '" \ dress creator's chief mission should be making 0 women beautiful he asserts and then she proceeds o to point out the way n'o woman can afford to miss lady Â§ duff-gordon's articles in o o t\je sunday examiner jj order yol'r paper 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